Side Tripping through the 20th Century: 50's and 60's

Side Tripping through the 20th Century

The 50's to the 60's

1969
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Past Master by R. A. Lafferty
The Goblin Reservation by Clifford D. Simak

1968
The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany
Chthon by Piers Anthony
The Butterfly Kid by Chester Anderson
Thorns by Robert Silverberg

1967
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Too Many Magicians by Randall Garrett
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Witches of Karres by James H. Schmitz
Day of the Minotaur by Thomas Burnett Swann


1966
The Squares of the City by John Brunner
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Skylark DuQuesne by Edward E. Smith

1965
The Whole Man (alt: The Telepathist) by John Brunner
Davy by Edgar Pangborn
The Planet Buyer (alt: The Boy Who Bought Old Earth) by Cordwainer Smith

1964
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
Witch World by Andre Norton
Dune World by Frank Herbert
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


1963
Sword of Aldones by Marion Zimmer Bradley
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Sylva by Vercors

1962
Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye
Sense of Obligation (alt: Planet of the Damned) by Harry Harrison
The Fisherman (alt: Time Is the Simplest Thing) by Clifford D. Simak
Second Ending by James White

1961
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
Deathworld by Harry Harrison
Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon

1960
Dorsai! (alt: The Genetic General) by Gordon R. Dickson
The Pirates of Ersatz (alt: The Pirates of Zan) by Murray Leinster
That Sweet Little Old Lady (alt: Brain Twister) by Mark Phillips
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

1959
We Have Fed Our Seas (alt: The Enemy Stars) by Poul Anderson
Who? by Algis Budrys
Have Spacesuit – Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
Time Killer (alt: Immortality, Inc.) by Robert Sheckley

1958 no other nominees

1957 none

1956 no other nominees

1955 no other nominees

1954 Retro Award nominees from 2004
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

1953 no other nominees

1952 none


1951 Retro Award nominees from 2001
Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
First Lensman by Edward E. Smith
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

1946 Retro Award from 1996
The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt
That Hideous Strength (alt: The Tortured Planet (1958 US)) by C. S. Lewis
Destiny Times Three by Fritz Leiber
Red Sun of Danger (alt: Danger Planet) by Brett Sterling